Type-writing and computing machine.



H. H. STEELE.

TYPE WRITING AND COMPUTING MACHINE.

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HERBERT H. STEELE, OF MABCELLUS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

chines also to combined typewriting and computing machines.

'ro nnmme'ron 'rrrnwnrrnn COMPANY, new 'YonK.

citizen of. the United States, and resident of Marcellus, in the couhty of Onondaga and State of NewTYork' have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type- 'Writing-and'Computing Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

.- My invention relates .to computing ma- The invention has for its principal'object to provide improved means to add or otherwise to register numbers written on a type- Writing. machine with or without connection Q with othertypewritten matter. One of the objects of the invention is to various combinations of such several sorts of totals as may be required by the part cularpiece of work in hand.

provide means to add automatically numbers written in various positions crosswise of a sheet of aper either on-the same reg1s "ter or on di erent registers or both, that is to say, to add numbers written in vertical columns either all'on the same register or else on different registers or to add the vertical columns on.diiferent registers and also to combine the'numbers in two or more of such columns into a single total obtained on a single register, means'being provided to va these matters so as to get any one of a variety of results as may-be desired giving vertical totals, grand totals, cross totals and Another object of the invention is to openate the adding mechanism by apower lndel'pendent of that applied to the typewriter eys.

' other object of the invention is o control the selection of the particular-register to be'operated by means of the typewriter carriage and preferably by means of the tabulator mechanism.

- Another object of the invention is to improve the construction of the computing mechanism in certain particulars which will hereinafter appear.

Another object of the invention is to improve the connections between the computing mechanism and the typewriting mechamsm.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

0F ILION, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF TYPE-WRITING AND COMPUTING MACHINE.

Patented Mar. 12,1918.

Application filed February 5, 1913.. Serial No. 746,302.

I parts, all of which willbe hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the mechanism of said machine, parts being shown 1n transverse vertlcal section just 1nside the right-hand Wall of the frame or casing, and some of the parts bein shown in section on other planes as has een found convenlent.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of part of the mechanism in section about on the line m00 of Fi 2.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the mechanism in the bottom of the machine, parts being shown in section about on the l1ne y-y of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 isa front elevation of part ofthe mechanism, parts being shown in section about on the line 2-2 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a front elevation of parts of the mechanism in section about on the line 0- of Fig. 2, this Fig. 6 being on an enlarged scale.

Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are views on a still larger scale than Fig. 6 and illustrating the construction of the register mechanism. Fig.

7 is a front elevation of a portion of one of the registers. with parts broken away and parts in section, the right-hand portion of the figure on a plane through the axis of the register wheel shaft and the middle portion on the axial plane common to two other shafts forming parts ofthe transfer mechanism. Fig. 8 is a right-hand side elevation of one of the register wheels and some of the associated mechanism including fragments of the next adjacent register wheel and the transfer devices, the parts in this figure being shown in normal position. Fig. 9 is a view of substantially the same parts as Fig. 8 but with the register in mesh withthe racks and the parts shown somewhere near the middle of the transferring operation. Fig. 10, is a view like Fig. 9 but showing the parts in the latter half of the transferring operation. In Figs. 8, 9 and 10 some of the parts are in fore and aft vertical section.

Fig. 11 is a right-hand side elevation on a reduced scale with parts in section and parts omitted or broken away and showing enough of the typewriting mechanism to make clear the connection of my devices therewith and showing the connections whereby said typewriting mechanism controls the computing mechanism.

, the same.

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary rear elevation of part of the tabulator mechanism.

Fig. 13 is a plan view on the same scale as Fig. 11 of the devices directly controlled by the numeral keys of the typewriter and which control the differential mechanism of the computer.

Fig. 14 is a fragmentary front elevation, partly in vertical section, of some of the devices shown in Fig. 13.

Figsr15 and 16 are side elevations of the same, the parts being shown in normal posltion 1n Fig. 15 and in Fig. 16 in the positlon they occupy just after a key has been depressed.

Fig. 17 is a fragmentary detail view of a certain disconnecting device.

Figs. 14-17 are on an enlarged scale.

Figs. 1825 are views on an enlarged scale of the devices whereby the typewriter carriage and tabulator control the denomination selection and the selection of the re ister to be operated. Fig. 18 is a top p an view, with the casing in section, of certain denominational devices whereby the typewriter carriage andtabulator select'the denominational devices of the computing machine. Fig. 19 is a left hand side elevation of the same and also of the register selecting devices, parts being shown in vertical section. Fi 20 is a horizontal section through a part 0 'the register selecting means. Fig. 21 is a rear view in vertical section through Figs. 22, 23, 24- and 25 are side views of column stops for the typewriter, said column stops being formed or provided with lugs which take part in the selection of the register to be operated.

Fig. 26 is a diagram of the electrical connections.

My invention is applicable or adaptable to typewriting machines generally. In the present instance it is shown applied to a Monarch typewriter, which is a front strike type bar machine in which the printing mechanism is relatively stationary and the paper is mounted on a traveling carriage. The main frame of the Monarch machine comprises a base part 1 from which rise posts 2 that support a top plate 3. Standards 4 rise from said top plate and support stationary grooved rails 5 along which a carriage 6 is adapted to travel, said carriage having ball or roller bearing connection with the ralls 5. The paper is fed around a roller platen 7 which is mounted on said carriage.

he printing instrumentalities COIIIPUSQ types 8 mounted on front strike type bars 10, the hangers 11 of whichare mounted on a shiftable type bar segment 12. Said type bars are actuated through links 13, sublevers 14 and key levers 15 by printing keys 16 mounted on the forward ends ofsaid key levers. The types 8 and keys 16 include types and keys for printing numerals as well as letters and other characters. The sub-levers 14 are pivoted to the ke levers and coiiperate with a fulcrum bar 1 Said key levers themselves have a rolling bearing at their rear ends on a fulcrum plate 18. The key levers 15- actuate a universal bar 20, which through a link 21 operates the escapement that ordinarily controls the feed of the carriage. This escapement 1s not shown-in the drawings but in typewrit ing machines such escapements usually in clude a dog rocker operated by the link 21 and having mounted thereon feed dogs, which engage an escapement wheel, which wheel is mounted on the rear end of a shaft I 22, which shaft is journaled in a bracket 23 mounted on thetop plate 3 of the machine. At its forward end the shaft 22 carries a feed pinion 24 which normally engages a feed rack 25 which rack is, however, capable of being lifted out of said pinion to release the carriage from the control of its escapement, said rack being mounted on the rear ends of arms 26 which arms are pivoted'to the carriage 6. ,The carriage is fed across the machine by the usual spring drum 27 and band 28.

The typewriting mechanism includes tabulator mechanism for bringing the carriage quickly to proper positions for writing numbers in columns. This mechanism may be of any suitable construction, but as here shown it includes a column stop bar 30 which in this machine is mounted on-brackets 31 projecting toward the rear from the carriage 6, the standards 4; being arched toward the back of the machine as shown in order to admit of the travel of said column stop bar. The bar 30, together with a looking bar 29 mounted on the underside thereof, serves to support column'stops 32 which are mounted thereon. This stop bar is formed with a series of vertical slots in its front and rear sides, said slots spaced a letter space distance apart'and the column stops are of the ordinary forked construction to be slipped down'over said bar, straddling the same and entering said slots, and one branch of each stop havin a notch to be engaged by the bar 29 to ock the stop in position. The stops 32 are adjustable to any desired letter space position b removing them from the bar and replacing them in any desired one of the pairs of vertical slots. These stops are, however, in addition to Wi h certain lugs for controlling the comtheir ordinary features provided,

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The column stops 32 are adapted to be arrested by any national stops 33, these consisting of the forwardly projecting upper ends of a series of levers 34 which levers are pivoted at 35 in a stationary frame 36 secured at 37 to the base lof the typewr ter frame and at 38 to the top plate3 thereof. Springs 40 normally hold the levers 34in such positions that the stops 33 are out of the paths of the stops 32 but said levers are adapted to be rocked by means of push bars 41 arranged to engage the lower ends of the levers 34 and each extending therefrom toward the front of the machine.

In order to release the carriage when one of thedenominational stops is operated, a universal bar 42 is provided, said universal bar lying back of'the lower arms of the le vers 34 and pivoted at 43 and having an arm 44 projecting forward from said pivot. link 45 extends upward from the free end of the arm 44 and acts. on a. lever 46 (Fig. 12) pivoted at 47 to a bracket 48 depending from the top plate. 3. Said lever 46 has pivoted thereto at 49, a lifter 50 having at its upper end shoes that lie beneath the feed rack 25. The construction is such that when any of the denominational stops is operated the feed rack is lifted out of the pinion 24 and the carriage is free to run toward the left until it is arrested by one of the stops 32 striking the operated one of the stops 33. V

The tabulator mechanism as thus far described is substantially identical with that ordinarily employed in the Monarch machine although it may, so far as my invention is concerned, be otherwise constructed. In the ordinary Monarch tabulator the push bars 41 are operated by depressible keys arranged across the machine just back of the keys 16. The space ordinarily occupied by the tabulator keyboard is in the present machine occupied by certain devices associated with the computing mechanism and the tabulator keys are therefore shown here in modified form consisting of push buttons 51 located in the extreme lower front part of the machine and mounted on the forward through suitable holes in a supporting bracket 53 secured to the front part of the base of the typewriter frame. The rear ends of the push rods 52 are pivoted to the lower ends of vertical levers 55 of the second order, said levers at their upper ends being pivoted-at 56 to a rod supported by brackets 57, which brackets extend forward from the stationary frame-36,,and said levers 55 have the push bars 41 pivoted thereto at 58. The lower ends of the levers 55 are guided by a comb plate 59 secured by one of .a series of denomithe present instance 52 which rods slide screws 60 to a comb plate 61 which guides the rear ends of the printing key levers 15.

Some of the most important features of my invention are capable of embodiment in machines in which the typewriting mechanism and also the computing mechanism are both manually operated either by the operation of the numeral keys of the typewriter or otherwise. In the present instance, however, the computing mechanism is operated electrically.

The numeral keys of the typewriter may, for some of the purposes of my invention, control the differential mechanism of the computerin any one of a variety of ways, but in the present instance each of said keys transmits a series of electrical impulses appropriate to the number printed by that key.

The mechanism for transmitting these electrical impulses comprises a rectangular frame, Figs. 11, 13 and 14, said frame comprising two end bars 62, a rear bar,63 and a front bar 64, said frame being secured in the base of the typewriter just back of the keyboard and beneath the type bars 10. In 4 i the bars 62 have each lugs that overlie the side bars of the base 1 of the typewriter and also a cross bar 65 of said frame; and each of said bars 62 has a lug 66, Fig. 14, that underlies a flange 67 of the side bar 1, which flange is engaged by a screw 68 threaded through the lug 66 to clamp the bar 62 to the machine frame. As shown in the present instance the bars 63 and 64 are of sheet metal and each of them has brackets or cars which are secured to the bars 62 by screws 69.

The bars 62 have journaled therein a transverse shaft 70 having on one end therevents endwise motion of the shaft toward the left; and a collar 74 fixed in any suitable manner on said shaft just inside thebearing 75 at the right-hand end thereof, prevents endwise motion of said Shaft toward the right.

At the part thereof which overlies the printing key levers, the shaft 70 has mounted thereon a series of collars 76 and 77, Fig. 14, the collars 76 alternating with the collars 77 and all rigidly secured to the shaft by means of nuts 78 screwed'on to threaded parts 80 of the shaft 70, said nuts being tightened against each other so as to compress the whole series of collars between the two nuts. The collars 77 are merely spacing and guiding devices. There are nine of the dropped down an amount qual to the altitude of an abrupt radial'shoulder 82. Each equal to the altitude of the shoulder 82.

Phe shaft depressed to print and .ada

'a'rotation the pin is caused to ri of the collars r1ng'83 of circular outline as to its. outside boundary but; with an .opening therein of somewhat elongated form but comprising a shoulder84 and two a'rcs of circles extendlng one forward andthe' other backward shoulder and eccentric to 'each'] from said other, the eccentricity of the two arcs bein of the shoulder 84 which in turn is as here shown equal to the altitude Motion of the'rings 83 lengthwise of the shaft, is prevented by the collars 77, which are the collars 76.. Each 1" held up the position s where the collar 76 is free'to 101381361111 said ring, said colfar turning in. the direction of the arrow. The ring can,

osition shown in Fig". 16 where the shoulder 82 of the collar, in which position of the parts the ring will of course be forced to rotate with the shaft In th' v r; of the ring is concentric with the p 0. The rings 83 are normally held up in their Fig. 15 positions by the numeral key levers 15 as shown at the right of Fig. en one of said numeral key levers is withdrawn from thering 83- which-drops down to the Fig. 16 Tposition as shown in Fig. at the left. e result'is that each ring is given a rotationat each .actuation of the corresponding key tion of the ring causes certain electrical impulses to:be transmitted to the adding machlne as willpresently. appear.

In order to disconnect the ring from the shaft and toarrest the ring at the end of a single rotation, said ring is provided with a pin 85 projecting from one side thereof pted to engage the curved nose 86 of a. bracket 87 ro ecting toward the rear of the machine: from the cross bar 64. Said nose'86 lies by the side of the ring 83'and in the" ath of the pin 85 so that as said ring an pin are nearing the completion of e on-the acts as a cam to lift the ringto Position where it is disengaged nose which its Fig. 15

76 is surrounded loosely by a.

of greater diameter than- 83 is normally owniin Fig. "15

however be re- I .liased, m which case it can drop own tot e shou der 84 of the ring is engaged by the and collar 76.] 1s positlon of the parts the outside" pea number this support is lever and this rota- The bracket 87 is formed understood. Said bracket as will be seen is adapted to allow the pin to drop down vertically when the key lever is depressed. v It will be observed that the very last art of the rotation of the ring will be cause by momentum. When-the ring is arrested in the positionshown in Fig. 15, the collar 76 being in motion at the time instantly runs ahead of the ring so that the higher part of the low part of the said collar runs under inside outline of the ring. For the next three-quarters of a rotation the collar 76 itself acts to hold position and the parts areso timed that by the time the arc 81 of the collar reaches the the ring in its Fig. 15

shoulder 84 the key lever'will have been restored to normal position and will retain the; ring 83 in its collar hap us to be 'ustpast the position shown in i 15 at t e time when the key 'leveris struci said collar will hold the ring 'up for a brieftime but not so long but that the are 81- will reach the shoulder 84 before the key lever has returned so far toward normal position as to hold the ring up. Once-the ring has begun to turn, the pin 85 Fig. 15 position. If the moves in' under a prof'ection 91 in the bracket 87 p and the key back to its normal position so that the ring will go on and complete its rotation; even though the falling of the ring may have been a little delayedm the first instance. a

It .will be perceived that, if the shaft 70 ever cannot lift it I p is so speeded as that it makes a rotation in a time about ual to or a little more than the durations the shortest key stroke, a rin will be sure to drop at least once at each stroke; and thatif no key stroke ever has a durationas great as a little less than two rotations of the shaft, then no ring can drop more than once at a key stroke. In any given typewriting machine, the actual durationsof the key strokes underthe conditlons of ordinary use, are sufliciently uniform so that theshaft 70 can be given a speed such that a rin will always drop once and no more at eac stroke 0 a numeral key. If a key were to be depr and held down,then its ring would .drop and be rotatedat every other turn of the shaft; but this is not the intended mode of operation, unless for some reason, such as for the purpose of multiplying,it should be desired to i add a di 't more t once at one key stroke. It w' also [be rceived that if another 'key be struck whi e one of these is rotating, the second ring cannot start its rotation until the The first ring stops when the shoulder 82 reaches the position shown in 15 and first on'ehas ceased toturn it isnot until: that time that the'second ring can begin to turn; It will thus be. seen that it is practically impossible for: two of these r ngs to be in rotation at-"once unless the operator has. struck. two keys'so nearly to- ,geth'er'that they could not-print correctly.

f the-typewriter iscorrectly operated no two transmitting rings can interfere with 'each other. v g

In order to prevent any ring from dropping down when it has about half completed,

a rotation, anysuitable means can be.pro-. vided. In the present instance I have shown a series of-fingers 92 lying beneath the rings 83 in position to. prevent them from dropping down any lower than shown in Fig. 16.

These rings project from a comb plate 93 secured to the cross bar 64.

' As each ofthe'pins 85 projects, over one of the letter printlng key levers 15, certain of said key. levers have'been formed with a. downward curve 9 1, Fig. 11, leaving a cut-out 95 through which'the pin can revolve without disturbing the key lever.

electrical impulses, said, rings are madeof In order to enable the-rings 83 to transmit v metalwhich, however, is cut out in certain ple'ted through the metallic faces 98 and places around the periphery offeach ring. and replaced with-one long strip of insulat- J ing-material 96'a'nd several short strips 97 between which show cross strips or faces 98 ofmetal. The ringshownin 15 and key and, there are nine of these metallic strips or 16 is the one that overlies. the 9 faces 98 in this particularring and in each of the other rings there is a number of sald metallic faces corresponding to the numerical value of the key over which said ring lies and. by which it'is controlled. When the rings rotate electric circuits are comtwo brushes having, as here shown, the form of rollers 100 and 101, which normally rest 4 on the long strip 96 of insulating material 1 but which during the rotation of any ring alternately make contact with the insulating material and the metal faces 98, thus sending through each roller a number of electrical impulses equal to the number of said faces 98. It will be noted that the roller 100 stands behind the roller 101 a distance about equal to the width. of one of these faces 98. The construction is such that the roller 100first makes contact with the face 98 and at about the same instant that said roller 100 passes on to the next succeeding strip 97 0f insulating material, the roller 101 makes contactwith the strip 98. The circuit is therefore closed through these rollers alternately and not through the two rollers at the same time.

All of the rollers 100 are mounted in the i forward ends of spring arms 102 which at their rear ends are secured b screws 103 against a strip of metal 104: lying along the bottom underside of a bar of insulating material 105 which issecured to. thefront face of, the

cross bar; 63. It will thus be seen that all of these rollers 100 are electrical connection withthe bar 10 1. This bar is, connected with a binding post 106, Fig. 11, to

' which issecured one .endof a wire 107, Fig.

13, which wire runsinto theco'm uting machinewhere it has connections t at will be described in connection with the description of said machine.

- Each of the rollers 101 is mounted on a spring strip 108 which at its rear end is secured b which l1es along the to of the bar 105 of insulating material. This plate 111-is rovided with a binding post-112 m-whic is a screw 110 against a'. plate 111 connected a wire 113 thatruns'into the adding machine. As the shaft-70 is run at a uniform speed, it will beperceivedthat the electrical impulses sent over the wires 107 and 113 will be sent at uniform intervals.

The denomination selecting mechanism of the adding machine is controlled by electric circuits including a series of wires 114:, Figs.

26, 19 and 21, which wires areshown as at one'side to a strip of sheet metal 121.

which in turn is secured to the upper rail 5 by screws 122 and being also secured to a plate 123 which by means of screws 124 is secured to the stationary framework 36 of the tabulator mechanism. The construction is such that the block 120 of insulating ma-. terial overlies the denominational stops 33 and the column stop 'bar 30. A series of holes are bored verticallythrough this block of insulating material above the column stop bar, said holes being staggered in order to make them of suitable size and at the same time to get the spacing thereof equal to that of the letter space feed of the carriage. One" of these holes is shown in vertical section in Fig. 19 where it will be seen that in the part of the hole there isj a bushing 125 through which projects a pin 126 which pinhas thereon a collar or flange 127 that overlies the. top of the bushin 125 and limits the downward motion 9 f the pin.

The upper part of the pin passesrthrough a second bushing 128 which guides said upper part of the pin and it will be observed that there is between the two bushings a ver tical space sufiicient to allow of a limited up springs 118 and each of said field of control and down motion of the pin 126. Each of these pins 126 has its upper end in contact with and pressed downward by one of the ins is therefore in electrical connection with one of the wires 114 and it will be noted that said wires and pins are insulated from one another and from the framework of the typewritmg machine. The springs 118 are extended alternately in a front direction and in a back direction from the pins 126 inaorder to provide more room for said springs. I prefer to cover the whole top of the insulating block 120. with a sheet metal casing 129 having an opening through which the cable 115 passes.

The lower ends of the pins 126 are beveled off as shown and they lie in the paths ofthe beveled upper edges 130 of the column stops 32. An adding column can be located or defined at any desired position across the paper by suitably locating one of the column stops 32 which when mounted on the bar 30 can be controlled by the denominational stops 33 to arrest the typewriter carriage in any denominational position within the column. At the same time when the column stop is passing through the of the stops 33 it is also passing beneath the series of pins 126 and whenever the carriage stands in any denominational position within such-column the stop 32 will have its upper edge. in electrical contact with the corresponding one of the pin's126 and therefore in electrical connection with the appropriate one of the wires 11 4, which wires extend in the adding machine to denomination selecting devices which will be described hereinafter.

A plurality of registers is necessary to accomplishsome of the objects of the present invention, 'five registers being shown in the present instance, and the particular one or more of these registers to be operated. is automatically selected by the typewriting mechanism through electrical connections including wires 131, 132, 133, 134 and 135, which wires are preferably gathered together ,into the cable 115. The wires 131135 have their ends at the typewriter connected to screws 136 threaded into a depending branch or plate 137 of the block 120 of insulating material that hangs down behind the rail 5 and the typewriter carriage and in front of the bar 30. Each of the screws 136 has connected thereto a wire 138, each of which passes along one of a series of horizontal grooves 140 out in the rear face of the insulating plate 137. Lying in the grooves-140 and connected respectively with the wires 138 are a series of register selecting devices which here have the form of contact bars 141, 142, 143, 144 and 145, which bars it will be noted are respectively in electrical connection with the wires 131 The parts are so constructed and arranged that the contact bars are pressed lightly toward the rear by their springs but they can be cammed forward a little by the lugs 146, for which purpose the ends of beveled ofi as shown in Fig. 20. These contact bars are here shown all of the same len h and all in different lines parallel wit the travel of the carriage. It will, of course, be understood that it may sometimes be desirable to make some of said bars of different lengths and to arrange two or more of them end to 'end.-

,It will be perceived that when the carriage is passing through an adding zone defined by any one of the column stops 32 that said column stop is through its lug or lugs 146 in electrical connection with one or more of the wires 131135, depending upon the number and location of the lugs with which that particular column stop is equipped. By suitably disposing these lugs, therefore, the numbers written in different columns can be'added on different registers or on the same register or they can be added on different registers and also tal register and various combinations can be used. Two examples of this sort are shown in the drawings. In Fig. 19 five column stops are shown provided each with one lug 146 and these lugs are at different heights so that they all contact with different bars 141-145. In Figs. 22-25 there is shown a setof four column stops all of which have lugs 146 in position to contact with the lowermost bar 145 and each of which has besides this another lug 146 adapted to contact with one of the other bars, these latter lugs being different on all of the different stops. By using this set of stops four adding columns can be defined and numbers written in the several columns will be added on separate registers whereas all of the numbers in all of the columns will be added on a grand total register controlled by the bar 145. It will of course be understood that other combinations can be used and in fact almost any combination desired can be arranged to suit the particular work that the operator has on hand. Other variaall on a grand tothe bar are I eoimections on the t pewriter are adapted to transmit a series of electrical impulses appropriate to the number written on the typewriter, that said devices are adapted to close in succession circuits appropriate to 107, 113, 114 and 131135 maybe of any suitable description as long as it is adapted to register numbers in accordance with the number of impulses sent over the wires 107 and 113 and in denominations selected by the Wires 114 and on registers selected by the remaining wires. I have, however, devised a novel adding machine of the'character specified, whichmachine in the present instance is shown separate from the typewriting machine and connected with it only through the wires above mentioned.

The adding machine has a casing 150 of irregular form within which the mechanism is inclosed and by which it is supported.

The machine contains a series of register operating devices, one for each denonnnation, said denominational reglster operating devices in the present instance consisting of segmental racks 151, said racks being pivoted side by side on a transverse rod or shaft 152 supported in the casing 150. As shown in .Fig. 3 each of the racks 151 has a hub 153 journaled on said shaft 152, and the series of hubs'are kept from motion endwise of said shaft by collars154, suitably secured on the rod, as for example, by set screws. There is one of the racks 151 for each denomination to be registered, ten such racks being shown in the present instance to correspond with the ten pins 126, each of which pins controls one of said racks. The

racks 151 are normally in their rearmost position, indicated in Fig; 2, to which position they are moved by weights155 mounted or formed 'on the rear ends of said racks and located back of the rod 152. and sufficiently heavy so that said weights, when the racks are released from other forces,

. will move the racks back to normal position where they are arrested by a cross rod. 156.

Theracks 151 are operated by means of coiled springs 157, one such? spring being provided for each rack to which its upper end is pivoted at158. The lower ends, of all the springs 157 are connected to a cross rod 160, Figs. 2 and 4, which rod constitutes the yoke bar of a yoke frame having side arms 161 each consisting of a bell-crank pivoted at 162 to a bracket or supporting piece 163 secured against the front wall of the casing 150 'nearthe bottom of the machine. Each of the bell-crankslfil has a depending arm to which pivoted an approximatelyhorizontal link 164, the rear end of which.

is pivoted at 165 to a T-frame 166,- which is pivoted at 167 to a bracket 168 constituting part of the frame piece -163. electromagnet or a pair of electromagnets 170 are securedat their forward ends to the frame piece 163 and they havefarmatures 171 mounted on or forming part of the frame.

166. The motion of said armatures and frame away from the magnets islimited by an adjusting screw 172 threaded through an arm 173 of the frame 166 and arranged to strike against the top of a post 174 extending upward from the bracket arm 168. A spring 175 isqco'nnected at one end with said bracket 168 and at the other end with the arm 17 3 to hold said arm and frame 166 in normal position. The springs 157 are close wound so that when in normal position they are not under any tension and the weights 155 are therefore sufficient to restore the racks 151 to normal position. When the circuit is closed through the magnets 17 0, however, the armatures 171 are drawn toward said magnets, their motion being communicated by the links 164 to the bell-cranks 161, causing the bar 160 to be moved downa sufficient distance to put the springs 157 under tension and so that said tension will continue through a motion of each of said racks of eighteen teeth, said racks having a motion of two teeth for each unit- .to be registered.

The circuits throughthe magnets 170 are controlled by the contact bars 141-145 and lugs 146 in a manner that can perhaps be understood from Fig. 26 and which will be more fully explained hereinafter. The construction is such. that current flows through ,the magnets 170 during the entire time when the typewriter carriage is in an adding column so that during that time the springs 157 are under tension. It will be noted that depending arms of the bell-cranks 161 are short'compared with the horizontal arms of said bell-cranks and that the springs 157 are connected with the racks 151 ,near the steps 176 formed on the forward part of each of the rack segments and on the lower edges of said segments. The steps 176 of 'capement devices comprising a series of' each segment are engaged b an adjusting screw or stop 177 threade through ears 178 bent off from a horizontal rack bar 180.

The stop 177 can be adiusted as to height 3 there is a series by turning it and it can be secured in adjusted position by lock nuts 181. It will be observed that this stop normally stands beneath the'lowe'rmost one of-the steps 176 and that if said stop 177 be drawn towardthe rear it will allow the rack segment to drop down a distance equal to one of the step;

176 for each unit of motion of the stop 1 toward the rear. The angular distance between two consecutive steps 176 is equal to two teeth of the rack. It will of coursebe understood that the steps'like 176, could be on the bar 180 and the coiiperating device on the rack 151, instead of the arrangement shown.

The rack bars 180 are all mounted on a cross rod 182, which rod passes through elongated slots 183 formed in said bars, said slots being Qf a suflicient length to allow of the-bars moving forward nine increments or units of motion. The normal osition of the bars longitudinally is determlned by the forward ends 184 thereof which ends are formed as stops that ndrmally rest against the front plate of the casing 150.

Each of the bars 180 has on its upper edge near the rear end thereof rack teeth 185 adapted to mesh with a pinion 186 mounted on a transverse horizontal shaft 187 which at its ends is journaled in the framework or casing 150. As shown in Fig. of ten of these pinions 186, one of them overlying each of the rack bars 180 and all of them rigidly secured to the shaft 187 as' by pins 188. -Means are provided for turning the'shaft 187 differentially as will hereinafter appear;

7 The racks 180 are normally depressed out of engagement with their pinions 186 as shown in Fig. 2, the downward motion of the bars 180 being limited by a fixed crossrod 189. These racks are elevated into engagement with said pinions by selective means includingv a series of ten electromagnets-190, one magnet for each rack bar.

Said magnets are in circuit with the wires.

114 as indicated in Fig. 26, said wires being connected with binding posts 191, Figs. 2 and 3. .eAs here shown, the magnets 190 are a mounted in holes formed in frame plates 192 and 193 which plates are secured to the base of thecasing 150 by screws 194. Another plate 195 similarly secured to the base of the machine, is situated in front of the forward ends of the magnets 190, and screws 196 passing through said plate and threaded Into the cores of said magnets,have nuts 197 and 198 thereon on opposite sides of the plate 195 and by adjusting said nuts each of the magnets can have 1ts rear end adjusted properly with relation to its armature 200. The ma nets 190 and the armatures 200 are pref erably arranged in the staggered fashion shown in Fig. 5, the'armatures being mounted on the dependin arms of bell-cranks 201, which bell-era are pivoted on a cross bar 202 and each of said bell-cranks has at its forward end a headed pin 203, Figs. 2 and 4, that asses through an elongated slot 204 in the fdrward end of one of the rack bars 180. The construction is such that when the circuit is completed through one of the magnets 190 the corresponding rack bar 180 is moved into engagement with its pinion 186 and therefore into position to be operated by the shaft 187, such operation consisting of-a longitudinal motion of the bar toward the rear of the ma-' chine through a .distance dependin upon the numerical .value of the operated typewriter key. As the bar 180 moves toward the rear the steps 176 follow the stop 177 with the result that said steps are in a position to revent for the time being the return of the ar 180 to its normal forward tion even when said bar is dropped own again out of engagement with the pinion 186. As the magnets 190 are in circuit with the pins 126 of the typewriter it will be perceived that the bars 180 will be moved one after another into gear with the shaft 187 as the typewriter carriage moves through an adding zone. I

The motion of the armatures 200 is limited by the cores of the magnets and it is for this reason that the adjusting screws 196 are provided. The adjustment of one of these screws regulates the extent to which the rack teeth 185 move into engagement with the pinion 186.

The horizontal arms of the bell-cranks 201 are guided by a comb plate 205 secured by screws 206 to the plate 192. Each of said bell-cranks is also provided with a returning spring 207 coile about the hub 208 of the bell-crank and at One end engagi one arm of the bell-crank and at the other end engaging the stationary framework.

- The racks 180 are provided with restoring springs 210 to move them longitudinally back to normal position at the end of an adding operation. These springs are coiled compression springs each rnounted in a tube 211 closed at its rear end and each of said tubes is inserted in a bore in the rear wall of the casing 150 as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. .Each of sand 212, Figs. 2 and 3, extending far enough to admit of the necessary amount of longitudinal motion of the rack 180, which rack has its rear end in said slot. A short pin or plunger 213, Fig. 2, is interposed between the end of the rack bar and the end of the spring. The construction is such that when the rack bar is moved up and down by the bell-crank 201 its end shdes across the end of the plunger 213 and when the rack bar is tubes 211 has a vertical slot racks 151 are finally restored to normal,

- device, or rather, a force feed device operated by the electrical impulses transmitted over the wires 107 and 113. The wire 107 leads to an electro-magnet 214, and the wire 113 to an electro-magnet 215 these two magnets standing upright in one side of the easing beneath the shaft 187, and the magnet 215 standing in'front ofithe magnet 214. Themagnet 214 has an armature 216 and the magnet 215 has an armature 217, said armatures being secured to the opposite arms of a lever 218 of the first order, said lever being formed integral with or constituting part of a rocker frame 220 which is pivoted at. 221 in-brackets 222 extending upward from a base plate 223 on which themagnets 214 and 215 are mounted. The rocker 220 and connected parts normally stand in the position shown in Fig. 2 where it willbe seen that the armature 217 is down and the armature 216 stands up above its magnet. When through the rotation of a ring 183 the circuit is closed and wire 107, the magnet 214 is energized causing the rocker 220 to rock toward the rear of the machine. As soon as the metallic face 98 passes out of contact with the roller 100 and into contact with the roller 101 the circuit is broken through the magnet 214 and closed'through the magnet 215 so that the rocker is forcibly rocked in the opposite direction. It will thus be seen that each of the metallic faces 98 causes a complete oscillation back and forth of the rocker 220. Said rocker includes two branches or palettes 224 and 225 which are-adapted alternately to engage a star wheel 226 fixed on the shaft 187. The palette 224 has an inclined upper edge 227 and the palette 225 has an inclined lower edge 228 adapted to engage the teeth ofthe plete oscillation of the rocker 220 causes said wheel 226 in such fashion that each comwheel and the'shaft 187 to turn toward the frontof the machine a distance equal to one tooth'of the star wheel, which star wheel has the same number of teeth as each of the pinions 186.

. Two' plate springs 22 9 carry two detent rollers 230 which engage the points of the teeth of the wheel 226, said detents being so arranged that when one of them is in engagement between two teeth the other-is poised on top of the tooth substantially in dead center position. ,These rollers are therefore adapted to retain the Wheel yieldingly in positions spaced about'a half tooth distance apart, the. rear roller nors ace p between teeth, and

mally engaging the wheel through the roller 100 position can the forward roller engaging the wheel betweenteeth when the palette 225 has moved said wheel about a half tooth distance.

The adding machine contains five registers which in Fig. 2 I have designated in a general way by the five numerals 231, 232, 233, 234 and 235. These registers it will be observed-are disposed around the series of racks-151 in such position that any one or more of the registers can be drawn down into engagement with said racks, said registers, however, normally standing up out of engagement as shown in Fig. 2. These registers can be read through sight-openings 236 formed in acurved casing plate 237, Fi fi 1 and 2.

e front wall of the casing 150 supports a series of switches to control the devices by which the register or registers to be operated are selected. In the switch-board thus formed, the wires 131135 terminate in buttons or contacts which may be variously dis:

134 in four buttons 244, and the wire 135- in two buttons 245, all as will be understood comparing Figs. 1 and 26. These series of buttons or contacts are arranged for cooperation with a series of switches246 consisting of arms of resilient metal pivoted at 247 to the front plate and each provided with a handle 248 for manipulating it. 1 number of dead buttons or contacts 250 are provided to throw any one of the switches out of use. It will be observed that the two end pivots 247 have each two switches 246 mounted thereon so that each of these pivots is capable of connection with two of the wires 131135 at a time. The buttons 241-245 and the pivots of the arms 247, are suitably insulated from the casing, as by sleeves and washers 238 of insulatin material. ln the mechanical have usually omitted to show the wires, whose disbe better understood from the electrical diagram, Fig. 26.

Each of the pivots 247 is connected by means of a wire to one of five elect-ro-magnets 251,252, 253, 254 and 255, Fig. 4, which magnets stand vertically on the base of the machine and these several magnets have armatures 256 which are connected respectively with the registers 2312 35 to draw said registers into engagement with the racks 151. For the sake of clearness, magnets 251 and 252 are omitted from Fig. 2. Each of the magnets 251-255 is connected with a frame piece comprising a bracket 257 to which at 258, Fig. 2,' is pivoted a lever 260 of the third order, saidlever having the armature 256 mounted thereon. The levers 260 are curved in the irregular fashion shown in Fig. 4 in order to bring their free ends into suitable positions and at said-free ends each of said levers has connected thereto the lower end of a link 261, the upper ends of said links being connected with the cross bar 262, Figs. 2 and 3, of a series of five yoke-frames pivoted on the rod 152 atthe ends thereof and nested in a manner which will be understood from Fig. 3. Each of said yoke-frames has at each end thereof and extending therefrom upward, or upward at a suitable inclination, an arm 263, Figs. 2, 3 and 6, each of which arins at its free end is pivoted by a pivot screw 264 to a stud 265, which stud is riveted to the free or inner end of a link 266, which link together with the arm 263 constitutes a toggle joint extending radially from the rod or shaft 152 in the general direction of one of the registers. This toggle is normally maintained in a straight position by means of a restorin spring 267, Figs. 6 and 2, which consists 0 a piece of spring wire passing loosely through the stud 265 and at its upper is pivoted. In addition or outer end fixed in the head of a 'whereby the register is p1vot 268 to which the upper'end of the link 266 to passing through the link 266 the-pivot 268-has an enlarged part that passes also through the end plate 270 of the register frame, said pivot being so connected with said end plate that it ,cannot turn therein. The pivot 268 after passing through the end plate 270 and link 266 is prolonged to project into aradial slot 271 formed in the casing 150 and arranged -to guide the register frame into and out of position where the register wheels mesh with the racks 151. Inside the link 266 and inside the slot 271 the pivot 268 has a collar 272 surrounding it and secured thereto by a pin 273.

As. indicated in Figs. .3 and 6, the arms .263 are nested and it will be understood that the studs 265 are made of different lengths to bring this nesting about and at the same time to bring all of the links 266 over against the si e wall or casing 150.

From the ivot 268 the end plate 270 of the register me extends radially and the register wheel shaft 274 has its end reduced and passing through said plate 270, which plate is secured between the shoulder of said shaft and a collar 275 which surrounds the reduced end of the shaft, to which it is secured by a pin 276.. The collar 275 lies in the slot 271 so that'the register frame plate 270 is guided by said slot at two points caused to move rectilinearly into and out of operative position. It will be understood that the devices which have-just been described are du licated at the two sides of the machine and at the two ends of each register. The re frame comprises two end plates 270, the register wheel shaft 274 and another shaft or rod 277, which is mounted in the ends of gister the plates 270, which plates have the angular orm shown in Fig. 3 so as to locate the shaft 277 farther away from the shaft 152 than the shaft 274 and forward of said shaft 274. The shaft or bar 277 is secured to the end plates 27 0 in any suitable manner as for exam le by inserting the reduced ends ofthe sha through suitable holes in the end plates and riveting the shaft up as shown in Fig. 6.

The whole construction is such that when one of the armatures 256. is drawn down -to-; wardthe core of its magnet the corres 0nding one of the yoke-bars 262 is drawn ownward and the arms 263 at the two ends of said yoke-bar are moved toward the front of the machine or toward the back of the ma chine as the case may be, with the result that the register frame is drawn down or radially inward to bring the register into mesh with the racks 151, said register frame being guided in its radial movement by the collar 272 and 275 sliding in the slots 27] The electric circuits may include any suitable source of current, two feed wires 280, 281 being shown in the present instance in Fig. 26 as leading to the combined machine from said source of current. One or both of these wires may be provided with a main switch 282. The electrical devices may include if necessary a current reducing device here shown as a resistance coil 283. In the diagram shown in Fig. 26, which diagram will of course be varied according to circumstances, there are two wires 284 and 285 1 0 that lead to the motor 72 and that do not run through "the resistance coil 283, which coil is interposed in the wire 286 that leads to the typewriter and adder circuits which have already been partially described in 10 connection with the mechanism. A second switch 288 is shown in the diagram and in Fig. 1 the switch is shown as located in the casing plate at the front of the adding machine. One of the feedwires 290 is shown ,in Fig. 26 connected with one of the stationary rails 5 of the typewriter. In other .bars 141-145 are through the tabulator stop 12 5 ieces 32 which are not indicated in Fig. 26. The return wire 291 is connected with the magnets 214, 215 and 190 and it is connected with the magnet as indicated.

0 return wires from each of the magnets 1 

